2023-04-25 18:23:25
The leader of Nupes, Jean-Luc Mélenchon announced on Tuesday the holding of a “summit meeting” next week to discuss the future of the left alliance tied after the presidential election in May 2022.
In a YouTube video, the initiator of Nupes mentioned the date of May 2 for this meeting of the leaders of La France insoumise, the Socialist Party, the Communist Party and Europe Ecology – The Greens. It will take place next week but the precise date is not yet defined, specified the coordinator of LFI Manuel Bompard and the head of EELV Marine Tondelier, requested by AFP. A socialist official also clarified that there will be no communication of the meeting scheduled for next week. “If you want to work seriously, you can’t do it in a permanent open format,” he explained.
“La Nupes, she works, she will meet at the top,” said Jean-Luc Mélenchon. “We are going to start phase 2 of the existence of this alliance, of this convergence, of this front that is Nupes”. The former presidential candidate said he “hoped” that the partners “continue to discuss so that in the next European elections the Nupes confirms that it exists, and that it can then move on to the other stages”. It must “be able to arrive at the top of all the lists so that we can see which side the country wants to go”, he insisted, referring to the European elections of 2024.
Europeans in perspective
The PS opened the door to a common list and LFI offers the head of the list to environmentalists, but Marine Tondelier has several times refused this prospect, believing that EELV was destined to succeed alone in the European elections, which were favorable to him in 2009 and 2019. “How do we explain to voters for whom Nupes has raised hope that we will leave separated in the next election? “, wondered in an interview with Release the former head of the LFI list for the 2019 Europeans, Manon Aubry.
She proposes to set up “from now” “working groups on three projects”: “the assessment of what we are already doing together in Parliament”, “the main priorities for 2024” and “the subjects identified as problematic” . Among these, she lists “the Europe of defence”, “the enlargement of the Union”, “federalism” or even “protectionism”.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon swept aside the recurring dissensions within the coalition: “La Nupes continues to move forward, to be united. Of course there are discussions, more difficult days, but there are lots of good days when things are going well, because we are neck and neck in the streets, and in the National Assembly ” .
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